arroz
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,301
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
arroz is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Oryza sativa) Planta de la familia de las poáceas, originaria del Lejano Oriente y cultivada en todo el mundo como alimento. Es una hierba perenne, de hasta 2 m de altura, con largas hojas acicula... Pronounced [aˈros]. It ranks #3,301 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with arto and atroz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arroz |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈros] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for arroz is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈros]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,301 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for arroz, with forms such as "arorz", "aroz", and "arrozz". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "arto", "atroz", "aro", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is arroz, spelled A-R-R-O-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Oryza sativa) Planta de la familia de las poáceas, originaria del Lejano Oriente y cultivada en todo el mundo como alimento. Es una hierba perenne, de hasta 2 m de altura, con largas hojas aciculadas, pequeñas flores en espiga que fructifican en una cariópside de hasta 1 cm de largo. Requiere terrenos muy húmedos y climas cálidos.
- 2Grano de esta planta, que, entero o molido, se aprovecha como alimento.
- 3Guisado a base de arroz₂.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arorz,aroz,arrozz,arrzo,raroz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for arroz
Misspelling Variants of "arroz"
Frequency rank: #3,301 in Spanish
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